The Best of The Greatest Hits (Top selling compilations on vinyl from the golden era)
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- A look at those great compilations from the golden age of vinyl. These are LPs that many people used to own (or maybe still do.) Loved by thousands only to be replaced later by cookie-cutter series comps. One of these "Greatest Hits" albums was once the top-selling album of all-time! The ones I am showing were considered legit albums with some having tracks that were exclusive to them at the time.
When I was a kid listening to the red and blue Beatles albums, I was fascinated by the 2 pictures taken 7 years apart and wondered what the hell happened to these guys in those 7 years!
😆😆😆LOTS of things happened to them, buddy - LOTS!
Two comps that I love are "Singles, 45 and Under" by Squeeze and "Singles Going Steady" by Buzzcocks. Both are sublime.
My copy of 'Singles going steady' was personally signed by Jose Feliciano.
I marvel at how much information you retain and recall about each individual album. You are a regular pop music savant!
Weird Scenes is a brilliant compilation. Terrific artwork , and avoiding all the big hits makes it so much more interesting.
Ive always appreciated well-sequenced compilations. They can sometimes be just as satisfying as a studio album...
For some artists even more!
Kinks Kronikles introduced many Americans to the classic 60’s Kinks
Every Neil Young fan should have that greatest hits set. Its like $10 in great condition.
I've always felt that a truly great comp is more than just a collection of hits. It has a vibe of its own, a flow of its own. Hot Rocks by the Stones and Chronicle by CCR do that. On the Hendrix, there was a Vol. 2 of that Essential Jimi Hendrix, and "Hey Joe" was on that one
Creedence has always been my favorite band. Don’t forget Chronicle, Volume 2!!!!
The first Alice Cooper comp is the best ever I think...
That was the first Alice Cooper I had. One Stellar track after another.
@@RobertFithen and some of the songs were remixed, so that's the only place to get the remixes.
Love Drew Struzan' artwork on Cooper's Greatest Hits...depicting that Cagney/Bogart era ...
First Talking Heads I ever had was Sand in the Vaseline. Great comp. My sister got me R.E.M.s Eponymous- that got me started on them. Another great one is Cure’s Staring at the Sea and Galore
Those 3 were my introductions to those bands, too.
CSNY, The Guess Who, ABBA, BTO, Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd .
I usually avoid "Greatest Hits" compilations but you must own Al Green's Greatest Hits album.
I have it now.
Concerning the Nudie suit. Nuta Kotlyarenko from the Ukraine, moved/escaped to New York in the early 20th century, and rechristened himself “Nudie Cohn,” then moved to California, where he started making wild suits, embroidered with dogs, plants, feathers, garlands, instruments, insanely patriotic eagles, fellow imaginary cowboys, and other symbols conjured personally for each member of his country singer clientele. Porter Wagner, Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers, Elvis Presley, Roy Rogers, and in later years Elton John, REM bassist Mike Mills, and Diamond David Lee Roth.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - so far
Bachman -Turner Overdrive -so far
America - History
The Guess Who - Greatest Hits
Creedence Clearwater Revival -Gold
R.E.M. - Eponymous
@36:50 : The Bee Gees have 3 careers before the 80s:
the 60s psychedelic rock amazing years,
the soft rock ballad era of the godly "Trafalgar"
and the pop disco era most people think about when talking about the Bee Gees
Two of the best "greatest hits" albums ever IMO include The Animals, The Best of the Animals, and The Hollies' Greatest Hits. But with The Animals, you have to get the first pressings because later issues contained different mixes of some of the songs, and even other songs not included in the first pressings, and they sound terrible. You can tell the difference by the back cover; they one to get has single portrait images of each band member, plus the label is the rainbow MGM label. And as you said about other bands, The Hollies had a ton of Greatest Hits releases, but the one to get is the orange label Epic release - it has got to be one of the best track listings of any greatest hits record, all the songs flow so well starting with Bus Stop, Carrie-Anne, Dear Eloise, and on and on to finish with On a Carousel and then He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
If you have the Lp of The Hollies, you can see that each image on the cover relates to a song and they are numbered.
@@RobertFithen Yes!
My first Aerosmith cassette tape was their Greatest Hits. It initially ruined my affinity for this kick-a$$ band. I later saw them at the 1987 Texxas World Music Festival. They were fresh out of rehab and were spot on. I remember turning to my friend while they were playing a new song (before it got air play) and asked him, "Is he saying 'dude looks like a lady'?" He replied, "I don't know. But, it effin rocks!" And I tell you what, they rocked that stadium to the core.
That was an awesome time for Aerosmith. I know someone who has the opposite experience... loved their albums, and then saw them live for the first time and it was when S Tyler was so out of it he fell off the stage. The only did a partial show and went on hiatus right afterwards. Strangely enough, instead of refunding money, fans got a free Greatest Hits album or cassette!
America, Bread, and The Carpenters. I listen to a lot of Yaught Rock.
Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine was my first Doors album! Inherited it from my uncle when I was 13 and it made a Doors fan out of me.
Great introduction!
Just found this tonight. My vote is for War's greatest hits Grooves and Messages. Thanks for your insight.
show your k-tel collection, those were also huge back in the day. And, I actually did like the on the radio album
I will eventually have a K-Tel video. How did you know? The song selection of "On the Radio" is great, I am just not a fan of the extreme edits of the best songs, while the Barbra Streisand duet gets nearly 12 minutes.
@@RobertFithen we are prob around the same age, the music you were showing just screamed for the K-tel collection to follow, they are great. i have been able to find many of these for just a couple bucks in decent condition - these were albums that people played all the time. The Donna Summer lp my sister had and that was the first time I heard the songs and didn't know the difference -lol. I was 10 when that lp 1st came out
'Not only is it the Beach Boys, but it doesn't have Good Vibrations.' Vicious!
Yes! lol
That is because Brother Records controlled Beach Boys songs recorded from 1966 onwards. There's nothing from Pet Sounds on it either. The 1987 CD added Good Vibrations as a bonus track (still overlooking Pet Sounds).
Not a "best of" but Hatful of Hollow is a great compilation.
Louder than bombs is the proper comp.
I like Show me your Hits by the Bloodhound Gang.
How about Wings Greatest? Came out in 78. I was 11.
Wow i love alot of these albums, i wish more bands did these nowadays... A Twenty One Pilots Greatest Hits would be one of the greatest albums of all time imo... Great video and great breakdowns of the music 👍🏻🙂
My favourite compilation album probably is Peaches by The Stranglers.
So that KISS record can also be used to cheat at cards! Lol. Thanks for making me laugh.
Yes, walking slowly! lol
Eagles Greatest Hits, 1971-75
Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits
Sly And The Family Stones
Greatest Hits
The Best Of Kansas
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Smash Hits
We Sold Our Soul For Rock and Roll Black Sabbath
The Best Of BTO (so far)
I love the Decca Rolled Gold Vols. 1 + 2 by the Stones. Vol. 2 never made it on CD. The Black Sabbath comp with the Hieronymus Bosch cover sadly enough is nowhere to be found these days.
Got that Neil Young Decade on vinyl and 2 copies of it on CD.
Sly And The Family Stone is an Epic one, no pun intended 😂
A fine video, Robert. I agree, many of those early comps were considered real albums because funds were short and they were the preferred way to spend your money. I remember working for $1.25 an hour. Some of my favorite records from the 60s were the comps by Dylan, The Stones, The Byrds, and Sly and the Family Stone. A few others too that you did not name-The Kinks Greatest Hits, Paul Revere and the Raiders Greatest Hits, The Mamas and the Papas 16 of Their Greatest Hits, and the first BeeGees greatest hits. And from the 70’s, Gordon Lightfoot’s Gord’s Gold,; Good Vibrations: The Best of The Beach Boys, and Cat Steven’s second comp. Footsteps in the Dark. All terrific lps. Your collection is impressive!
Thanks! Those are all great compilations.
Great video Robert. Greatest Hits albums don't get much love but everyone has them. Glad to see you spot light some of them. I don't own Aerosmith's or Foreigner's , but now I know why. Did not know they were so chopped. Thanks for the heads up. When I first started buying CD's I went for "Greatest Hits " of my favorite artist.
Thanks!! Many of my firsts from artists were Greatest Hits, too.
My first Rolling Stones album was “Hot Rocks”. It got me hooked on The Rolling Stones.
Great idea for a video a lot of people crap on comp albums, but some of them are real gems. For me, I am a time life music junkie. I have a lot of there box sets and there’s still a lot of fun to listen
Time-Life Sounds of the 70's was outstanding. Excellent song selections and it sounds good too. Even the artwork was good.
It seemed like everyone had those Beatles records.
Steppenwolf - 16 Greatest Hits, Carole King - Songs of Long Ago, Funkadelic- Music For Your Mother, Rolling Sones - The London Years, The Association- Greatest Hits, Siouxsie & the Banshees - Once Upon a Time, Pretenders - Singles, Madness - Divine Madness, Deep Purple - The CD Anthology,
"Music For Your Mother" is mind-blowing.
The rascals time pieces from 1968 has all their big hits except people got to be free which hadn't been released yet. Also had its a beautiful morning which wasnt released on any other album. Allman brothers 1969-79 has all their best stuff on it. Best of the doobie brothers great compilation. Not a fan of van halen best of both worlds. Every song is a Dave song followed by a Sammy song (no Gary songs) and has a shortened version of finish what you started. Deep purple get deepest purple. Has all mk2 and mk3 hits. The upgraded best of deep purple has hush, Kentucky woman and knocking at your back door added. And the essential byrds is a great compilation. Goes into the early byrds all through gram Parsons and Clarence white era. Actually im one that prefers their later stuff.
Another great video, Robert! I have most of the albums you showed on vinyl and/or CD. A few additional popular compilations come to mind...
+ Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Greatest Hits (Released in 1970): Everyone (including our family) had this record!
+ America's Greatest Hits / History (Released in 1975): Includes singles that charted in 1975.
+ Carpenters - The Singles 1969-1973 (Released in 1973): Features the single version of "Top Of The World" from 1973 (remix of the track from the album "A Song For You".
+ Daryl Hall John Oates - Greatest Hits (Rock 'n Soul Part 1 - Released in 1983): Side 1 leads off with "Say It Isn't So"; Side 2 includes "Adult Education" as the first cut. Both songs charted as singles in 1983/1984 and were not on any other album at the time.
+ The Best Of The Alan Parsons Project (Released in 1983): Contained the new single "You Don't Believe", which charted in 1983 and appeared on "Ammonia Avenue" released the following year.
The CD version of Aerosmith's Greatest Hits that I own has the edited single version of "Sweet Emotion" as you mentioned; "Dream On" is presented as the full-length album version. I do, however, have a 45 containing the edited version you reference. AM radio tended to play the edit, while FM radio tended to play the full-length version.
I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment of the Foreigner - Records compilation! Looking at the sealed LP, there's no way for a buyer to know "Hot Blooded" is a live version. Regarding the edited songs, "Feels Like The First Time" and "Long, Long Way From Home" are the single versions that received AM radio airplay. The minor edits are incredibly idiotic, as both songs aren't particularly long to begin with. I wonder if this was done as a ploy to get people who were mildly interested in the band to spring for the self-titled album to own the full-length songs? In the case of "Jukebox Hero", the single edit included here likely existed because the album track clocked in at 4:18 -- not desirable for AM radio in those days. And where are the great singles "Blue Morning, Blue Day" and "Break It Up"? On a more positive note, I believe this crapilation contains the single version of "Cold As Ice", which is the same length as the original album track but adds horns and strings during the fade-out. I actually prefer this version.
I could probably write an entire article about silly/stupid song edits throughout the 70's and 80's (and I bet you could too -- or make a video devoted to this subject)! I may have previously brought up the radio/single version of Jethro Tull's "Locomotive Breath", which replaces the line "and the all-time winner has got him by the balls" with "has got him by the bun". WTF?
That's all for now...
Thanks! I agree with all of those and actually have each of them except the Best of the Alan Parsons Project. It justs seems too silly to edit out just a couple of seconds from songs. I've never heard that version of "Locomotive Breath" but it sounds hilarious!
Hall & Oates Rock & Soul Vol 1 should be on this list! Currently available again from Mofi...sounds amazing, and end to end hits.
Missed -standing on a beach the cure
Green Grass and High Tides
The Rolling Stones.
Sly and the Family Stone and Hot Rocks when I was like six. My older sister introduced me to those. The one that your video didn't mention was the Doors greatest hits from 1985. I have the CD version. Has Whisky Bar on it. My favorite compilation. I wish it had Gloria and 20th Century Fox on it though and Peace Frog
I just stayed with compilations that were released close to the time of the music on them. Otherwise, the video would have been hours long. lol
Steely Dan's A Decade of Steely Dan was a great one released on CD in 1985. The Best of Three Dog Night also wonderful compilation and April Wine's Greatest Hits for us Canadian music lovers ... Great Videos Robert .... I love the way you always have those vinyls and CD's ready to show.
I remember stereo stores using the Steely Dan cd to demonstrate how good cd players sounded.
The Best of Blondie came out in 1981 on vinyl,
8 track, cassette, and VHS tape.
First released in 1984 on cd.
Slightly different song listings for different countries.
The whirling bird like sound on Heart of Glass is Chris Stein's brilliant guitar! Love that version!
Wish they'd included Detroit 442,
Fade Away Radiate, Picture This,
The Hardest Part, Union City Blue, X Offender
Atomic: The Best of Blondie
was a big improvement!
The Essential Jimi Hendrix
(2)
Weren't the photos of the red and blue Beatles greatest hits done like 10 years or so apart? (Well, I deleted the part of my comment mentioning Depeche Mode Greatest Hits. ) Well, Aerosmith's Greatest Hits does look cool, so it's in my collection.
"Greatest Hits" was the free album they gave to concert-goers in Springfield, IL who felt ripped off when Steven Tyler fell off the stage at the beginning of the concert that they paid for!
As Time Goes By- The Very Best of Little Feat is a wonderful compilation...
First off, great shirt! Great video! How about The Worst of Jefferson Airplane? But it's all great hits. I got punked!
Thanks!! I don't know which title is more cynical, "The Worst of Jefferson Airplane" or "Jefferson Airplane Loves You". lol
In Police's defense: Murder by Numbers was a B-side on their probably most popular single, Every Breath You take. So it wasn't like you had no access to that song unless you bought the CD album. (But again, I literally grew up on the Police and our household never had a single or compilation from them, only albums on cassettes, LPs... So it was a bit of a surprise when I first heard Synchronicity on a CD around 91-92.)
BTW, Tea in the Sahara is a beautiful closing piece for that album.
For a single, Every Breath You Take b/w Murder By Numbers has a helluva dark theme throughout
Murder By Numbers ended the cassette, too - when I got the Synchronicity LP later on, I saw no Murder by Numbers. I thought I was rooked.
John’s album was one of three my folks bought me alongside The Beach Boys Twenty Golden Greats and Neil Sedaka’s The Hungry Years( Yup! The one with “Bad Blood”) to be played on my very first Fisher-Price turntable for Christmas when I was six. I played it religiously until the grooves were completely replaced by scratches! While it’s a shame that “Tiny Dancer” or “Levon” didn’t make it I still feel it is one of the finest hits compilations of all time.
Nice comprehensive video, as I purchased many of these back in the 70’s and 80’s. Two additional albums I would add are Crosby Stills Nash & Young-So Far (1974) and Steely Dan’s double LP Greatest Hits (1978).
Cat Steven's Greatest Hits, Best of the James Gang (Analogue Productions), Steppenwolf Gold (Analogue Productions)
Excellent again Robert, love your presentation, always a little humour in your delivery but very informative and educational 👍👍👍
Thanks!! Great to see such a comment.
Great video, Robert. 2 bands in which their original albums are hard to find but they have plenty of collection "albums" are the Yardbirds and the Animals. One I recommend from The Yardbirds is Remember The Yardbirds. It has a plain album cover but has the essentials Heart Full Of Soul, For Your Love and Shapes Of Things. The Animals Greatest Hits is one you would probably want. It has a lot of images of the band pastes together, before the days of Photoshop.
Kiss' Double Platinum has some interesting remixes. I guess that was their way of luring the Kiss fan into getting their collection.
The Who did the same thing earlier by not only adding songs you could only get as singles but different takes of Magic Bus and I'm A Boy.
Simon And Garfunkel had live versions of 59th Street Bridge Song, Homeward Bound and 2 others.
I'm glad you warned me to stay away from the Foreigner Singles.
The Who seem to have an endless amount of compilations.
I have some of them in my collection.
Excellent video. A great topic as well. Anyways, I'll just give you one you missed. Shaved Fish John Lennon 1975.
Hey Robert, i like your shows however you continue to show closeups of cds and lps that i cant see.dont try to get close without proper lighting. Sitting and arm length ok but not so close ok. Or fix the lighting issue. Peace brother.
Was expecting The Carpenters and Hall & Oates.
Love love love Stevie's Original Musiquarium album.
I won the Elton John greatest hits by calling into a radio station. I was 9. They threw in Beatles Rubber Soul for some reason.
I had to laugh when Billy Joel's Greatest Hits came out. I have always turned the station when one of his songs comes on the radio. Not a Billy Joel fan at all. Uptown Girl, a horrible song that should have never been recorded. Best use for that song would have been on a comp of outtakes and rejects called What Was I Thinking.
The Deep Purple comp, When We Rock, We Rock ... One of the greatest comp album covers of all time, but a decent hodge podge of songs. I guess Warners wanted to include most of the eras and styles Deep Purple went through.
I was kind of expecting Heart's Greatest Hits / Live to show up here. It is such a quirky album. The inclusion of the two weird tracks "Hit Single" and "Strange Euphoria" show us that they ran out of live tracks and put together some goofy, good for one listen filler. It seems more like a contractual obligation release rather than a genuine best off collection.
This is the Moody Blues...Squeeze 45's and Under, More Hot Rocks, Kinks Kronikles, Queen's first greatest hits, David Changes One, Shaved Fish, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Procol Harum's Greatest Hits
Volume 2 has the rest of His Hits
Robert you talk a lot... but it's bloomin' fascinating !. not many clips hold my interest right through like yours do. They are longish but always choca full of cool stuff. 😎✌
Never was a fan of greatest hits LPs. They missed out on stuff like the bass players song or the track the drummer sang on. Come down to earth tracks.
Stevie Wonder's Musiquarium - before Stevie switched over to Soy-boy pop. His later stuff was TOO sicky-sweet. His early ballads were actually gut-wrenchers, but his later ballads were just Hallmark movie fodder.
23:30 - Justify My Love - now it's nothing - unless, of course, some wokette decides THEY think there's something wrong with it and feel traumatized, upset, hurt, uh.....who gives a fuck anymore?
"Deepest Purple." Pink Floyd: "Relics"- Usually great Live albums are like a Greatest Hits compilation, too.
A few that I would suggest are: Roxy Music Greatest Hits (1977), Creedence Gold (1972), Soft Cell The Singles (1986).
Stevie Wonder had early comps when he was little Stevie Wonder.
CARS - Tonite She Comes actually sounded like a true Cars album track I thought I didn't remember.
BILLY JOEL - You're Only Human - he was, too, and he made a mistake - recording and releasing this song - AWFUL - WORSE than We Didn't Start the Fire. I know, it's really hard to get worse than that song, but he did - that's why he was a master.
I only had a handful of those albums. Rolling Stones Hot Rocks, Jimi Hendrix Smash Hits, The Beatles Red and Blue. That's it. With Bob Dylan I had the live double album he did with The Band Before The Flood. I also had The Who The Kids Are Alright. I bought it after I saw the movie. It's a very good documentary.
Just bought the eagles greatest hits on double cd and beach boys greatest hits cause it had a lot from the pet sounds album.
I think steve miller was given out with every 6 pack of budwiser. Lol😂🎉🎉🎉
50,000? Robert Can Be Wrong…50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can’t Be Wrong
I'm not a huge fan of best of compillations, which I think is a kinda common snobby attitude, so first of all I admire your love for them. I think less than 1% of my collection are best ofs.
A couple compilations noteworthy for me:
Apart from Sheik Yerbouti, it was a compilation, Strictly Commercial, that got me into Zappa's music. A great collection with nice packaging, liner notes.
War's Greatest Hits is a classic comp. I put it on for that same exact reason you mentioned at the Sly and the Family Stone bit. It brings a friendly, nice vibe to the house.
I think that's all I can think of. :D Of course there are a bunch that are important for me because they bring in a bunch of B-sides, rarities, but that's a different concept.
I'm not even 10 percent into your video, but I just want to comment, anyway. Greatest hits collections were the thing to get back in the 70s and 80s. Now we have public libraries at which you can borrow all the CDs of your "faves and idols" (😆) and just rip them onto a streaming platform like I tunes, but I do miss the "wow - awesome" of a greatest hits album coming out. .
Bob Rafelson said they named the movie "Head" so that on later films, he could say, "From the producer who gave you 'Head.'" I assume he was joking.
2 more I would suggest are Led Zeppelin - Mothership & CCR - Greatest Hits
From what I understand, a lot of groups didn't put out greatest hits collections unless they wanted to change record labels, but still owed the current label an album under their current contract. I remember hearing that when the Eagles broke up, they said Hell would freeze over before they would perform together again. Turns out they owed the label another album, and thus Hell Freezes Over was born. Don't know if that is true.
I want that shirt! Great video Robert. I would say I have the majority of those albums, I thought you were going through my lp collection. :)
Thanks!! Like I say, I think everyone had some of these.
I was real upset when I realized about a year ago that my Blue Beatles compilation LP had gone missing, must have happened when I moved home, still have the Red one but now gotta replace the Blue one, not gonna be cheap of course but as soon as I can I will replace it hopefully, what a 'choker' I'm still gutted by it.
Endless Summer didn't have Good Vibrations because Capitol didn't have rights to it at that time. In the 80s they put it on the cd.
Awesome stuff! But no Best of The New Riders of the Purple Sage where probably 90% of the album sales were from the cover photo alone. Love your knowledge, Keep em coming
Thanks!! I did mention that album in a video called "10 Questions for video creators and Random Titties".
@@RobertFithen Just watched it, very funny!
Singles - 45's and Under is the only Squeeze album you’ll ever need!
As Walt Frazier would say with that shirt, you are styling and profiling .
After watching this I put on my copy of “Chicago IX”
the thing about greatest hits albums is that a band's fans would most likely already own the songs on a greatest hits record. And greatest hits albums often included edited versions of songs instead of the unedited versions.
A really good comp of Merle Haggard on vinyl is songs I’ll always sing
i never noticed before that paul simon looks like gallagher on that cover.
There's also a lyric in Help me Rhonda where he sings "Shattered my heart" and in the other version "Ruined my heart", and I prefer the version of Be true to your school with the cheerleaders.
Oh man! yeah that Elton John and Steve Miller are so perfect for Greatest Hits and were my first and only ones from those artists for years. Janis Joplin greatest hits is good too and Jimi's Smash Hits. Best Greatful Dead is the early best of release. I need to get the Kiss Platinum and Sabbath greatest hits still some day. Aerosmith and Queen GHs are great. I always rock that Aerosmith GH. I was waiting to see if you would show Donavan - Greatest Hits. One of my all time faves.
I never liked the Aerosmith Greatest Hits because of the edits, especially "Sweet Emotion".
@@RobertFithen that fair. I dont mind the edit actually that much. Im not that big on long intros anyway. Being a DJ I sometimes have a short attention span haha. Im already on to the next track. But I get you its not the original version.
Yesss. I want that original Steve miller greatest hits with all the songs
Great vid Robert! Nice to see some classic comps like Golden Records by Elvis, the Red en Blue by the Beatles, Sold Our Soul and Smash Hits. Smash Hits was back then the way to get the single's Hey Joe, Wind Cries Mary and Purple Haze on an album in Europe cause they werent on the debutalbum, Are You Experienced (uk version). Im also a fan and collector of the Anthology serie, released mid 70s, by different Motown acts. But my all time favourite comp is 40 Greatest Hits by Hank Williams.😃
Thanks!! 40 Greatest hits is an excellent overview
@Robert Fithen
Head and shoulders, the best Elvis compilation is "Les 40 Plus Grands Succès Originaux"
Bread and three dog night
'Decade' Neil Young, Red and Blue Beatles, Dylan Greatest, Al Green greatest, 'Hot Rocks' the Rolling Stones Otis Redding --- compilations like these serve as good anchor records. You start with these and you have a path (several actually) that leads to endless years of rock and roll enjoyment
excellent video, I actually watched the entire thing
Awesome! Thanks!! I'd like to think I kept it interesting. lol
For the casual fan of:
Lynyrd Skynyrd, get yourself " Gold & Platinum"
ELO's first comp "OLE' ELO"
Steely Dan's double album "...Greatest Hits"
Jimi Hendrix "...Volume Two" with the 7" single " Gloria"
Ole' ELO one of the first records I purchased at Musicland!!
The Monkees' odd bare bones first greatest hits was quickly replaced by Refocus which was better packaged and thought out. In 1976 Refocus was repackaged as Greatest Hits while The Monkees launched the spinoff band Dolenz Jones Boyce & Hart and shortly after Rhino began their Monkees repackages and The Monkees started doing big business again.
Imo a good alternative to the early Hendrix comps is 1983's The Singles double album. It's a good amalgamation of Smash Hits and Essential.
Foreigner did a better comp for the CD era called The Best and Beyond with better mixes.
The Doors went nuts with the greatest hits but 1985's Best Of double is a good compromise of 13 and Weird Scenes. I used to like the later Legacy but it's too loud. I figured out how to make better sounding versions of the uncensored versions of The End and Break On Through it has, get those tracks from the surround mix of the debut, remove the ambient channel then sum it down to stereo.
All very good and correct info. I didn't mention those groups (especially the Monkees) because the labels released so many different compilations that there really isn't a difinitve one that "everyone" had. I have most of the Monkees ones including "Barrel Full..." which has actual monkeys drawn on the cover.
Hi can I send you some albums cover sleeves ? Some of them look pretty worn😊
Can't even begin to estimate how much time it must take to put these videos together. Always so much fun to watch as they trigger lots of random thougts.